Hat-fastener.



- No. 703,507 Patented m I, I902. M. E. WAPLES.

HAT FASTENEB.

(Applicgtion filed July 19, 1900.) (No Model.)

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WITNESSES INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT" OFFICE.

MARGARET EVELYN WAPLES, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

HAT- FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,507, dated July 1, 1902.

Application filed July 19, 1900- To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET EVELYN WAPLES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Im-- provements in Hat Shields and Fasteners for Hat-Pins, of which the following is a specification. I

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a device which when attached to the hat shall securelyhold the hat-pinin place therein.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device that shall shield the hat from those thrusts of the sharp point of the hatpin which are usually made in attempting to put the hat-pin in position and shall confine the hat-pin to one fine opening through the hat, thereby saving the hat from numerous destructive and ugly punctures.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device which can be located on one side only of the hat and shall not pass through the hat nor thus or in any other manner injure it.

Another object of my invention is to provide a shield with such elasticity and softness of material that the point of the hat-pin when impinging against it cannot be injured.

Another object of my invention is to combine with a shield and fastener containing one or more features of my invention a se ries of guides for aiding the wearer to find the hole in the fastener with the point of the hat-pin after the pin has been passed through the hair.

Among the other objects to be secured by my invention are simplicity of construction, economy of manufacture, ease of attachment and of manipulation, and durability.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages resulting from their use conjointly or otherwise will be apparent from the following description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this application, and in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 represents an elevation of the front of a device, illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of the rear of the device. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same, taken at the plane of the Serial No. 24,209. (No model.)

dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows in perspective a disk of sponge-rub her which is contained between the disks of my device. Fig. 5 represents an elevation of the front of my device when modified by the omission of the front radialguides.

I will now proceed to describe my inven-v tion in detail. I

I select a material that is elastic or semielastic and not so hard as to injure the point of the hat-pin impinging against it. A desirable material containing these requisites is celluloid. I employ two pieces (respectively marked A and A of such material. These pieces are preferably discal in form, but may be angulated in outline. Each of these pieces has a small central aperture B, which extends through it. Between these pieces is located a small piece 0, of spongerubber or equivalent elastic material, concentric with the passage B. This piece 0 is somewhat compressed between the pieces A and A The compression of the rubber causes it to fill not only the aperture Bin the front and back piece A but to project outwardly beyond it. This projection C will arrest the point of the needle as it is moved over the plate A. Thereupon the point of the pin can be pressed through the rubber. The pieces A and A are suitably secured together, usually near their periphery. The preferred means for thus uniting them are the eyelets D, each of which is passed through a hole in each of the pieces A and A and clamped or fastened in position. This junction of the two pieces by means of the eyelets will bring the edges of these pieces closer together than the sponge-rubber 0 allows their middle portions to approach each other, and thus the rubber is compressed between them and held firmly in position.

To the more readily guide the point of the hat-pin to the aperture B, I provide the front or outer face of the piece A with radial guides E, which latter extend from or near the periphery of the piece to the aperture B. These radial guides may consist of recesses or projections or ribs. In the drawings Ihave illustrated the latter form of construction.

The device as an entirety is to be sewed or otherwise fastened to the inside or outside of the hat in that part of the hat where the wearer desires to use the hat-pin, and it may be directly attached to the hat itself or the lining or bands, &c., thereof, either alone or in combination with or as a part of any ornament or useful device, such as a buckle or rosette.

here the eyelets D are present, they serve as a convenient means for securing the device to the hat by sewing.

The guides E become of importance when the device is secured on the inside of the hat.

After passing the hat-pin through the hair with its point directed toward the shield the said point will strike some part of the shields surface. It is then an easy matter to move the head of the pin slightly, so as to cause the point to reach some one of the guides and followit to the aperture B. e The elastic substance there at once holds the point, which is readily pushed through it. Vhen the hat is to be removed, the pin is readily withdrawn.

A device thus made according to my in vention obviously secures the objects stated in the opening of my specification.

In certain instances the guides E may be omitted. (See Fig. 5.)

\Vhat I claim as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A plate, having a central aperture, radial guides combined therewith, a rubber against the back of said plate, and means adapted to hold the rubber in place at the back of said plate, the rubber compressed bet ween such plate and said rear holding means, and extending through the said aperture,

substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. Ahat-pin,guide,shieldandfastenercomposed of two pieces A and A having a central aperture, and an elastic medium located between these, covering these apertures, and extending beyond their edges, and confined between these pieces so as to extend through the apertures, thus presenting a raised surface, adapted to catch the point of the pin, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. A hat-pin, guidc,shield and fastenercomposed of two pieces A and A having a central aperture, and an elastic medium located between them, covering these apertures, and extending beyond their edges, and confined between these pieces so as to extend through the apertures, thus presenting a raised surface, adapted to catch the point of the pin, and the piece having the radial ribs, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4:. As an article of manufacture, two fiat discal plates, of metal or the like, each having a central aperture, and so located with reference to each other that these apertures are concentric, a discal diaphragmic piece of rubber located between these two plates, and across the aperture of the plates, and in connection with the inner plate, radial ribs leading from the outer or circumferential edge of the plate to the central aperture, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

MARGARET EVELYN WAILES.

Attest:

Wu. H. PUGH, K. SMITH. 

